Marketing

Everything is marketing

Marketing is everything

Every person you meet is judging you, so make a good impression. You need to behave and appear to be exactly how you you want them to think you behave and appear. I get a fair few digs for my emo fringe - but I play with a band, my fringe ties me to my music as does my sense of dress. I'm polite and well mannered, reasonable and fair and this sells the product of Ben Duff well to everyone. People who meet me may then listen to my band based on my recommendation, or perhaps listen to other bands I suggest. This is simply one example of how everything we say effects other peoples opinions of us, and how they make further judgements of what you say based on those opinions. 

I suppose this is very obvious to a lot of you, but it's something that has a huge importance to our lives. While I'd love to say I don't care what others think, what other people think is what my living depends on. I need people to like me, like my band, think I can do the right job, trust me etc.

Apologies for the last post, I know no-one else was confused, but I had set out to write about one thing, then forgot what it was and wrote about something else entirely! Meaning Tim had no relation to the post really. I'm sure the original content will come back to me and then I'll blog about it!

love n peas ;)

more people read this than I thought!

Right, it's been an eventful week, one with lots of emotion and things and some realization, much of which I wanted to blog about at the time, most of which I've forgotten.

It's mostly down to Tim, who worked as a catalyst between me and Claire, in many ways this was a good thing, it brought me to my senses somewhat and made me think about things. This was also quite bad in other ways but much of the negative was caused and fueled by alcohol (evil stuff) and moods. Certainly I don't think (hope) there are no bad feelings and that it's water under the bridge. 

I think the biggest realization was that of self-worth. For a while I have believed that in order to make effective use of your time and to create a balanced sense of self-value you should work out that your time is worth what your personal minimum wage is. This is not the minimum you want to get paid for a job you want to have, but how much you have to get paid to do a job you hate.

For me this is around £12 an hour. Now, use this figure, and balance it with activities you are doing, your job for instance may be quite good, I certainly enjoy mine, I have fun with my colleagues and get to chat to lots of people all the time, so I'm happy with my £6 an hour. 

However it is in your free time that this has to be balanced, obviously sleep is necessary and therefore worthy of the £12 loss of profit, eating is also a needed cost. Doing fun things that are free are obviously great for the self-worth. 

Essentially what I'm trying to say is that you should make the most of your time, you have a high self-worth and should use that to some extent at all times, whether for your own pleasure or for income. Take from this what you will, but maybe it'll help someone.

Don't forget investments though - sometimes it is worth destroying this self-worth in order to help another who is in need. A sleepless night or an awkward conversation may prove far greater 'value' in the long run, it is important that while you do your best for yourself, you also do the same for others lest we all turn into the bastards punk-rock songs sing about.

Maybe I'm talking shit, maybe I'm not.

I think this is enough, I have other ideas along these lines which I may well share with you at some point in future. In the meantime listen to Reggie and the Full Effect.

Anyone reading this on the blog site comment this post please, I want to know how many there are!

some more of summer

Things are going quite nicely at the moment, which is nice!

Things I'm thinking about:

I Have Clones live shows

Allucinere live shows

Boardmasters 'Unleashed' festival

Who the fuck is Rodney P

Starting proper punk-rock band - not another blink-182 wannabe but a proper Rancid wannabe

Long words I didn't know yesterday

Poker

Car boot sales - I love buying car boots

Thats really all there is atm, just plodding along with work and hoping september will come round soon!